Month: March 2018

The current edition of The Point News has begun to circulate the St. Mary’s campus community. Pick one up from any St. Mary’s College of Maryland building. If you can not find our drop-off location near you or would like to request the paper be delivered to a specific spot, please email Read More

Krishanti Vignarajah, or Krish as she goes by on her gubernatorial campaign, told The Point News that if elected she would bring a new generation of leadership to Maryland in terms of environmentalism, infrastructure, education and diversity. Concern about the future motivates Vignarajah to run for office; “I am worried Read More

Students may feel that the trouble of voting often outweighs the benefits. That is evident, shown by the fact that in every midterm election, youth voter turnout gets lower: to the point where the last midterm, we saw youth turnout break record low levels, according to The US Census Bureau. Read More

Students at a high school just a 20-minute drive away from St. Mary’s College of Maryland were reportedly thwarted after a “threat of mass violence.” 25 firearms were seized from a local home in relation to the arrests. On Feb. 22 the St. Mary’s County Sheriff’s Office reported, that on Read More

“It was like something out of judgment day. Corpses and heads scattered, engulfed by fire and ashes…” This is a quote from Amal Sabri, a resident of Mocha, Yemen, where right now the Yemeni people are experiencing their third year of civil war. Yemen continues to be the site of Read More

Benjamin “Bibi” Netanyahu, the Prime Minister of Israel, is now involved in four ongoing corruption investigations. The Israeli police now say that they have enough evidence to indict him in two cases, reported The Washington Post. Netanyahu has been in Israeli politics since 1988, serving as prime minister for a Read More

Editors note: This article was written on March 4. PBS NewsHour reports that teachers returned to their classrooms on Wednesday, March 7 after making a deal with the state government resulting in a 5 percent pay raise. School’s out in West Virginia. It is not due to snow, wind or Read More